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Sometimes
Hail, hail
Who you are
In my tree
Smile
Off he goes
Habit
Red mosquito
Lukin
Present tense
Mankind
I'm open
Around the bend

Sometimes

 
large fingers pushin' paint
you're god and you got big hands
colors blend
the challenges you give man

seek my part
devote myself
my small self
like a book amongst the many on a shelf

sometimes I know
sometimes I rise
sometimes I fall
sometimes I don't
sometimes I cringe
sometimes I live
sometimes I walk
sometimes I kneel
sometimes I speak of nothing at all
sometimes I reach to myself
here god
 
 

Hail, Hail

 
is there room enough for both of us
both of us apart?
are we bound out of obligation?
is that all we got?
I get the words
then I get to thinkin
I don't wanna think
I wanna feel
how do I feel?
how do I?

if your the only one
will I never be enough? well
hail hail to the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah

I swore I'd love you till the day I die
and beyond,
are we going to the same place?
if so can I come?
It's egg rollin, thick & heavy,
ahh, the past we carry
ahh, I could be new,
you underestimate me

if your the only one
will I never be enough? well
hail hail to the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah

sometimes realize
I could only be as good as you'll let me
are you woman enough to be my man?
bandaged hand in hand

That I'm the only one
in a race that can't be won, yeah
all hail the lucky ones
I refer to those in love, yeah

if your my only one
so good, you only one.
I want to be your one
enough you won
your one
your one
your one
 
 

Who you are

 
come to send not condescend
transcendental consequence
as to transcend where we are
who are we? who we are

trampled marks on your souls
change is on you're a part
seen it all not at all
can't defend the command

take me for a ride
before we leave

circumstance
clappin' hands
A-dyin' winds Heaven sends
off the tracks in the mud
thats the moss
in the afore mentioned verse

just a little time
before we leave
stop light plays it's part
so I would say you've got a part
what's your part?
who you are
you are who
who you are
 
 

In my tree

 
Up here in my tree, yeah
Newspapers meant enough to me, yeah
And all accrossed my head, yeah
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah

Wave to all my friends, yeah
They don't seem to notice me, no
All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh
Sidewalks, cigarettes and scenes, yeah, yeah

Up here so high I start to shake
Up here so high the sky I scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath here within my chest
Just like innocence

I remember him, yeah
I swore I knew everything, oh yeah
They say knowledge is a dream, yeah
He's growing up just like me, yeah

I'm so light the wind he shakes
I'm so high the sky I scrape
I'm so light I hold just one breath and go back to my nest
Sleeping innocence...

Up here so high the bars they break
Up here so high the sky I scrape
And my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse
Of my innocence.. got back my innocence..
Still got it, still got it.
 
 

Smile

 
don't it make you smile?
don't it make you smile?
when the sun don't shine
don't it make you smile?

don't it make you smile?
don't it make me smile?
when the sun don't shine
don't shine at all
don't it make me smile?

I miss you already
I miss you always
I miss you already
I miss you all day
This is how I feel

I miss you already
I miss you always
three crooked heart swirls around
I miss you all day
don't it make you smile?
 
 

Off he goes

 
(one two, one two three..)
I know a man
his face seems pulled and tense
like he's ridin' on a motor bike in the strongest winds

so I approach with tact
suggest that he should relax
but he's always moving much too fast

said he'll see me on the flip side
on this trip he's taking for a ride
he's been takin' too much on
off he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
there he goes

he's yet to come back
but I've seen his picture
it doesn't look the same up on the rack
we go way back

I wonder bout his insides
it's like his thoughts are too big for his size
he's been taken where I don't know
off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
there he goes

and now I rub my eyes
for he has returned
seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned

for he still smiles
and he's still strong
nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit
that has grown

and now he's home
and we're laughing like we always did
my same old same old friend

until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
he seems distracted and I know just what is gonna happen next
before his first step
he's off again
 
 

Habit

 
see it happen to a couple of friends
see it happen and the message it sends
taken up for what's an obvious fall
just to see what all the fuss is about

it's not your way
not true way
it's not your way

another habit says it's in love with you
another habit says its loves overdue
another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self

it's not your way
not your way
it's not your way

never thought you'd habit x3
I never thought you'd
never thought you'd;
never thought you'd habit x3
I never thought you'd
never never thought you
never thought you'd habit x5

never thought you'd habit x3
I never thought you'd
never thought you
never thought you'd habit x3
I never thought you'd
never never thought you
never
never me
never you
never me
 
 

Red mosquito

 
(line one, mighty fine)
Watched from the window, with a red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up
Somewhere in the time between

I was bitten, must have been the devil..
He was just paying me a little visit
reminding me of his presence
Letting me know, he's awaiting.. ohh

Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior
While you're climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him, bunches in your neck
Hovering just above your bed
Hovering just above your bed

I was bitten, must have been the devil..
He was just paying me a little visit
reminding me of his presence
And letting me know, he's awaiting, he's awaiting.. ohh
Up there.. yeah..
If I had known then what I know now...
If I had known then what I know now...
If I had known then what I know now...
If I had known then what I know now...
 
 

Lukin

 
Drive down the street, can't find the keys to my own fucking home
I take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb
I make a right after the arches.. stinking grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket, people stare like I'm a dog
I'm goin' to Lukin's, I've gotta spot at Lukins..
I knocked the door at Lukin's.. opened the fridge..
Now I know life is worth
I find the key but I returned to find an open door
some fucking freak who claims a father can't rape his own son
I find my wife, I call the cops, this day's work's never done
The last I heard the freak was purchasing a fucking gun.
 
 

Present tense

 
do you see the way that tree bends?
does it inspire?
leaning out to catch the sun's rays
a lesson to be applied

are you getting something out of this
all encompassing tree?
you can spend your time alone
redigesting past regrets, ohh
or you can come to terms and realize
you're the only one who can't forgive yourself, ohh mmm
makes much more sense
to live in the present tense

have you ideas on how this life ends?
check your hands and study the lines
have you ever believed that the road ahead
ascends off into the light?
seems that needlessly it's getting harder
to find an approach and a way to live

are we getting something out of this
all encompassing dream?
you can spend your time alone
redigesting past regrets, ohh
or you can come to terms and realize
you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself, ohh
make much more sense
to live in the present tense
 
 

Mankind

 
You'll be, going out with radio
going out with disco
going out with bacchanal

I'll be, going out with telephone
going out alone
to the radar zone

it's all just inadvertent imitation
I don't mean mine
it's all across this nation
if it's just inadvertent simulation
patterning all mankind
what's got the whole world fakin it?

I'll be, playin' with my magazine
usin' up my lysterine
like ovaltine
and you'll be dippin in your battleship
for the latest tip
for the latest dream

it's all just inadvertent imitation
and I don't mean mine
it's all across this nation
if it's just inadvertent simulation
patterning all mankind
what's got the whole world fakin it?

if it's just inadvertent imitation
patterning all mankind
what's got the whole world fakin'?
what's got the whole world fakin'?
what's got the whole world fakin'?
what's got the whole world fakin'?
what's got the whole world fakin'?
what's got the whole world fakin it?
 
 

I'm open

 
a man lies in his bed in a room with no door
he waits hoping for a presence
something anything to enter it
after spending half his life searching
he still feels as blank as the ceiling at which he stares
he's alive but feels absolutely nothing
so is he
when he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him
by nine he had deciphered the illusion
trading magic for fact
no tradebacks
so this is what's it like to be an adult
if he only knew now
what he knew then
I'm open
I'm open
come on in
come on in
come on in
come on in
I'm open
I'm open
come on in
come on in
come on in
come on in
laying sideways atop crumpled sheets with no covers
he decides to dream
to dream up a new self
for himself
 
 

Around the bend

 
I am wishing you a well
mind at peace within your cell
covers up, I cast you off
I'll be watching as you breathe
I lie still you move I send
you off around the bend.

I hold your head deep in my arms
My fingertips they close your eyes
Off you dream my little child
There's a sun around the bend
There's a sun around the bend

All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me won't you please
Please forgive me let me share
with you around the bend

Your an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
On and on around the bend.

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